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182 HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS
credit as his brother and sister writers who turn out plays for the speaking stage or literature for the magazines.
True though it is that it may be easier to write a photo play than a stage drama, that is no reason the author of the former should be slighted, for his work certainly reaches more people, and will probably do more good than that of the latter. We are considering now not only the writers of features, but also the author of single and double-reel stories, for all have their place in the film world.
Roy L. McCardell, author of "The Diamond from the Sky," and a veteran photo-playwright and novelist, touches on this matter in an article dealing with past and present conditions in the photo-playwriting field published in The Movingpicture World. We present Mr. McCardell's story here in part, without comment, as the viewpoint of one writer who has gained the top of the ladder :
"Manufacturers have ignored the value of a good story written for the screen by men and women of the highest literary ability. These leading fiction writers of America could not and would not write moving pictures for the reason that the pay was pitiful, and the treatment they received at the hands of the average scenario department of even the largest companies disgusted them.
"I have fought the good fight in moving pictures for fifteen years. In these fifteen years I have clamored at the studio doors, and have had experiences that would have dismayed and discouraged all save a few of us of